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Hozz

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  1. This game came out in 2019 on the PC and won a lot of audience and critical acclaim. They made a 'final' version of it and ported it to the consoles last year while upgrading the PC version at the same time. It had been on my to play list for a long time but I held off because it didn't seem like it would be my kind of game. No traditional combat, almost more of a choose your own adventure type experience than anything. I finally gave it a whirl recently and it's pretty good in a different from pretty much everything else way. Closest comp to anything I have played would be the two Planescape games, but even those had combat in the traditional CRPG sense, this does not. You play as an alcoholic hobo cop with amnesia in the middle of a murder investigation. Because of the amnesia angle you can take the character in a lot of different directions. It's sort of like if Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas were a video game in a completely made up setting with its own very detailed history and politics. You have 4 attributes and each of those influences 6 skills. The game is full of skill checks using 2d6 +/- any skill/circumstance/environment modifiers against a set number governed by relative difficulty. But a roll of 2 is always fail and a 12 is always success. It's also one of those games where failing a check can be 'good' and open up entirely new path ways and similarly a successful check can result in outcomes that you would not generally call a success. Extremely dialogue heavy (everything voice acted in the final cut version) so if that is not your thing, this is not your game at all. Other than that, I'd say this is worth a flyer for anyone that likes decision driven story telling games.
  2. Nolan Ryan documentary that I just heard of last night and rented and watched it on the spot. Rented on Prime, assume you can rent/buy it elsewhere. I'm not a baseball guy at all now but I was a huge Astros fan in the early to mid 80s as a kid growing up. This movie is great. A little pre-baseball and family stuff bookend the movie but it mostly just follows his career and has cuts from lots of former teammates, coaches and opponents. If you were ever a fan of his or a team he played for I think you'd enjoy it and find it worth both your time and money.
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    Whatcha reading?

    The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels Same guy has a more recent book along the same lines but I started with this one.
  4. They sure are on Wikipedia. The recession page edits, and voting, are hilarious since the new truth was published.
  5. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/coming-up-u-s-gdp-11659010141?mod=home-page Good thing the definition changed a few days ago, otherwise we'd be in a recession right now!
  6. I tried on and off since launch to impulse buy a PS5 and never found one in stock online. At this point I'm just going to wait for the PS5 Pro or whatever they will call it. It would be great if that could come out in a Ragnarok bundle. My PS4 Pro is the God of War bundle one.
  7. Looks pretty good to me. A lot of fan service in the trailer.
  8. Also, forget about inflation! At least we don't have to worry about a recession.
  9. $35 less per month for one peson
  10. Yeah I knew it started as Tsips but I had no idea why. Either way sips is fucking dumb Aggie shit and makes me laugh.
  11. I mean they aren't the same at all. How the fuck am I supposed to spell aggy? Aggie? Is one better than the other if so why? They sound the same when spoken. Sip is completely made up stupidity kind of like tu, but worse because you can at least intuit what they are trying to do with tu vs UT.
  12. I love it when they use sips. It's the dumbest shit and so on brand for them.
  13. This dude needs to be sitting at a table with 5 hats then flip it over like a mad wrestler and grab a Texas hat from below the table.
  14. Making someone watch a drill going into an eyeball is some Clockwork Orange shit and whoever came up with that is a legit psychopath.
  15. No Earl Campbell on Mount Rushmore?!? Cmon, man!
  16. I know Steve Addazio would not appreciate these things being said about me.
  17. Ads are gonna need to go all out on this pool party. Restriping the parking lot is definitely in play.
  18. If you have a Prime account you can get 30 games free today and tomorrow. I don't know the complete list and I'm sure most are shitty, but one of them is Mass Effect LE. https://gaming.amazon.com/home
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    The Boys

    I haven't read them but someone who did told me Noir was supposed to be some kind of Homelander goes crazy failsafe, which implied to me he could kill him and/or was as powerful as him.
  20. Nice Pimp C profile pic. edit: Or it could be a stock photo. I choose to believe it is Pimp C.
  21. friendlyhorn22 is gonna get sent to the cooler.
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    The Boys

    I thought it was a good season but not a fan of the last episode.
  23. I want just silver 16oz aluminum bottle with the horns logo and the obligatory bud light labeling. I don't drink bud light but I would buy that for 11a kickoff day drinking purposes.
  24. Saw a story on Clemson, UNC, UVA and FSU to the SEC. That would be nuts. I'd stop at Clemson and FSU personally.
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